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Article: CHRISTIAN PINEAU, 90; FRENCH LEADER.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 7, 1995
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Byline: New York Times
PARIS Christian Pineau, a leader of the French Resistance who became one of postwar France's most active foreign ministers, died on Wednesday in Paris. He was 90 and had homes in Paris and Vence, a resort in the French Alps.
A gentlemanly politician and Socialist, he served as foreign minister from 1956 to 1958. During his tenure he signed the Treaty of Rome, one of the foundations on which the European Union is built, and spoke for France to a skeptical world in the Suez War in 1956.
He also sought solutions to France's colonial problems and worked to mitigate the Cold War by shifting the focus from military ...